Percutaneous nephrostomy in cervical cancer patients: a retrospective analysis

To study the survival outcomes of uncommon recurrences among patients with cervical cancer compared with loco-regional and nodal recurrences at a tertiary care center in North East India – Bridging the knowledge gap in the existing literature.

“…Local or pelvis recurrences are most common site of involvement in cervical cancer. Next most frequent sites of involvement by recurrent cervical carcinoma are solid organ of abdomen [3] , [9] , [10] . Similar findings were also seen in our study with local recurrence (46.6 %), nodal recurrence (21 %), liver (21 %) and bone (15 %) of cases.…”

“…Follow-up of treated patients is guided by clinical assessment with diagnostic imaging performed when there is a clinical suspicion of residual or recurrent disease, preferably targeted as per the patient’s complaints [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] . Histological confirmation is sought depending on disease-free interval.…”